Posted on 09/02/2007 6:14:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Brian De Palma wants to stop the war, and he thinks his new movie about an Iraqi girl's rape can help, regardless of the consequences or the rights and privacy of Iraqis. In a Friday August 31 Reuters article, De Palma asserted The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people. Sky News online picked up the thread that he hoped his film "Redacted" will alert people about these horrible things things that are happening, this horrible war that I am financing as an American citizen.
De Palma's comments were made Friday, at the Venice Film Festival, after showing the movie that is supposedly based on the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl from Mahmudiya who was then killed and her house set on fire. You know, every day stuff in the military.
Redacted is a do-over for De Palma, who made the same movie back in 1989 when it was called Casualties of War and starred Michael J. Fox. This is De Palma's second try at the American military rapes indigenous girl and everyone laughs, but the sensitive guy feels sorry and tells; someone has nightmares, and the military is still bad storyline. At least it wasn't The Bonfire of the Vanities 2.
Reuters noted De Palma's belief that if only people could see the real war photos and hear the real stories that aren't censored by the corporate establishment, people would simply turn against the war, thus ending it. No thought to Al Qaeda in Iraq and the insurgents or even Iranapparently it will all just stop (emphasis mine throughout):
The pictures are what will stop the war, and if we can get these pictures in front of a mass audience, and get these stories in front of a mass audience, maybe we'll have some effect.
Reuters laid out a series of statements that showed how stupid and ill-informed he thinks Americans who support the war are by claiming they don't know the truth and just need his help to understand:
It's all out there on the Internet, you can find it if you look for it, but it's not in the major media. The media is now really part of the corporate establishment," he said.
Right, everything on the Internet is true, in fact, there's a Nigerian prince who needs my help right now.
De Palma claimed that the mainstream media are not telling the whole story by withholding graphic images and in the process divulged his storyline isn't as real as he claimed:
"When I went out to find the pictures, I said (to the media) give me the pictures you can't publish," he said, adding that because of legal dangers he too had to "edit" the material.
"Everything that is in the movie is based on something I found that actually happened. But once I had put it in the script I would get a note from a lawyer saying you can't use that because it's real and we may get sued," De Palma said.
"So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real."
The media ignored this telling statement that he fictionalized the things that were actually real in a movie that is supposed to be the reality of what's going on in Iraq What does that leave?
Also, lawyers tend to worry more about being sued for libel and slander than factual events. They worry about Hollywood movies making claims that are not true. The truth is a defense against lawsuits, but random Internet rantings and the Jesse MacBeths and the Scott Beauchamps of the world make lawyers sweat.
Now De Palma showed that he is an Ugly American who doesn't care about the rights and privacy of people in a foreign country and the law:
The film, shot in Jordan with a little known cast, ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians killed and their faces blacked out for legal reasons.
"I think that's terrible because now we have not even given the dignity of faces to this suffering people," De Palma said.
Because nothing says dignity like a Brian De Palma movie.
This from a man who claims to be a follower of Hitchcock. Hitchcock was a very patriotic American and I doubt would have never dreamed of using his art against his adopted country.
It seems to me that the biggest fans of Scarface are coke heads. At least that has been my personal experience with loose acquaintences in bars, etc.
I finally saw this movie when it was screened at a museum retrospective. I don’t find anything to champion in the film to give it such an honor.
LLS
The movie may have been distinguished by the museum for being so trashy and stupid.
So it is basically a remake of an earlier P.O.S. movie that stunk (Yeah, I saw Casualties of war--and it reeked.)
No number of remakes can polish that toid.
Bears repeating, imo. Well said.
De Palma, has a radical irreverence that borders on the sadistic. De Palma was hyper-conscious of the Vietnam War, in the background, but always connected to the war are the age of assassinations, the rise of SDS, the rise of Black Power, the post-68 hardening of Nixon on the consciousness of the Left, and in conjunction, the advent of the home movie, the rise of the silent majority, the early beginnings of truly independent cinema in the form of exploitation/porn that was a huge business in the 60s and 70s in NY
"I am sure before the movie comes out people will say, 'De Palma lost his mind, doing a $5m video project'. That's how I want to tell this story, under the Hollywood radar.
"People will be arguing over this film... that is what I hope will happen, depending on how successful it is," he said.
"It is un-American to criticise the government... Personally, I am not scared. I am the man they love to hate. I am sure they will say; 'It's another De Palma misogynist saga'.
"But this film is about Americans at war and what we do and we need to stomach it."
"The pictures are what will stop the war," said De Palma.
"All the images we (currently) have of our war are completely constructed -- whitewashed, redacted," said De Palma, "One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to get their congressmen to vote against the war," he added.
He explained that legal obstacles in dealing with real people and events meant he was "forced to fictionalise things" to get the movie made.
"Redacted" will initially be distributed nationwide by Magnolia Pictures and its producer Jason Kliot says. "If the response is strong one hopes the distribution will grow the film in a big way."
August 31, 2007
Movies De Palma Should Have Made
Redacted: The true story of U.N. “peacekeepers” who rape and murder the people they’re supposed to protect.
Redacted: The true story of how Stalin engineered the Ukrainian famine and how the New York Times lied about it.
Redacted: How the U.N. dragged its feet while American soldiers were dying in Mogadishu.
Redacted: How the Boston area Hobo disappearances are tied to the Boston area Valu-Rite Vodka shortage.
Overnight Fun With Brian De Palma [Vinnie]
We morons are more than perfectly capable of coming up with the sequel to Brian De Palma’s insult Redacted.
After all, you did a magnificent job of re-working the original.
My suggestions for sequels:
Redacted II: An in depth look at Islamic honor killings.
Redacted II: 21 South Korean hostages taken, 19 freed.
Redacted II: The true story of Christians in Saudi Arabia.
Redacted II: Che Guevara, not so cool after all.
Redacted II: Prominent blogger flees to France after Boston police figure out dead hobo - Valu-Rite Vodka connection.
August 31, 2007
Brian De Palma Throws Anti-American Propaganda Into Overdrive
Hollyweird has-been Brian De Palma has ratcheted up the propaganda in an admitted attempt to help bring about an American defeat in Iraq.
His outrage Redacted has managed to reduce European audiences to tears by graphically exploiting the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by criminal elements in the US military.
As even De Palma surely knows, the terrorists he would have us surrender to commit comparable crimes on a daily basis as part of a deliberate policy. But you won’t see any movies about al-Qaeda torture houses, because those wouldn’t advance De Palma’s stated goal of causing us to lose the war.
Creepy, exploitative has-been De Palma lends critical propaganda support to al-Qaeda.
Billionaire Mark Cuban has decided to put all of his weight behind a campaign to smear US troops in Iraq as monsters. Cuban has decided that De Palmas film Redacted must be seen as the cornerstone of his and De Palmas self-declared anti-victory campaign against America and her troops fighing in Iraq. Cubans company Magnolia Pictures will be bringing this propganda campaign to a theater near you this winter. According to a source close to Cuban, the decision for Magnolia to develop, finance and distribute the film was personally made by Çuban.
Mark Cuban is also planning to distribute a version of the 9/11 conspiracy theory video “Loose Change.
...the decision for Magnolia to develop, finance and distribute the film was personally made by Çuban...
Interesting way to put it. Makes me wonder if the money was Cuban's alone, or if he had an angel?
Thankfully I wouldn’t know. I don’t believe I’ve seen any of his movies. But obviously I am a major Hitchcock fan.
ever see Scarface....the Al Pacino version
once again DePalma steals material....interesting flick though
About boycotting. I am boycotting all of H'wood unless I know about the film, studio and actors. 95% or more of actors and films today are trash and much of it and them are traitorous.
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Mark Cuban bankrolled that movie.
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